"In my understanding of [Lawrence Lessig's 'code is law'], what you're saying is kind of what he was hinting about; forewarning about the ability for platforms ... to kind of govern people or kind of regulate people in their behaviour ..."

@theblockchainsocialist, 2025

https://theblockchainsocialist.com/is-the-state-dead-farewell-to-westphalia-with-jarrad-hope-and-peter-ludlow/

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Is the state DEAD? Farewell to Westphalia with Jarrad Hope and Peter Ludlow - The Blockchain Socialist

In this episode I spoke to Jarrad Hope, founder of Logos, and Peter Ludlow, philosopher and research advisor at the University of Hong Kong, and co-authors of the new book ‘Farewell to Westphalia.’ In the book they detail the historical trajectory of nation states and what they perceive to be their failures as well as propose […]

The Blockchain Socialist
No offence intended to @theblockchainsocialist or his guests, but I do find it amusing listening to them grasping to invent on the fly a governance system that's neither a state nor a business. As if the economic management model of the commons never existed.